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Boy, 6, Suspended for Sexual Harassment

BROCKTON -- A 6-year-old boy suspended last week after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class does not understand what he did wrong and should be moved to another elementary school to avoid becoming stigmatized by the incident, his mother said yesterday.

I have temporarily suspended my weekly SGI News for this little article. Mostly because.... how in the hell can a 6 year old boy commit sexual harassment. Especially since the act of sexual harassment is the act of trying to put yourself at a sexual advantage.

Honestly, this seems like a very biased article to me. I'm not willing to make a comment on whether or not the school is right or wrong because of the bias.

I have to say, from experience, this mother comes across as one of those mothers who will deny that there child ever does wrong doing--no matter how much evidence you confront them with. But that's just my two cents--and I can't even say if that's a fair judgment because of the way the article is written.

I remember this whole stupid story. It happened in my town at a school not too far from my house. I forget exactly what happened, but if I remember correctly, the girl had pulled back on the waist band of the boys pants and snapped it back at him, and the boy did it back to the girl to get some pay back. Of course, the teacher saw, flipped out, and it got into a big mess. Last had heard that the boy was taken out of the Downey school and moved over to the Kennedy school, which is near my highschool, a few miles away from the Downey.
I don't really thing that one can call sexual harassment against a six year old. That would imply that the child knows about sex, and is either sexually aggressive or discriminatory...which I doubt a child of that age could even fully comprehend.

Honestly, this seems like a very biased article to me. I'm not willing to make a comment on whether or not the school is right or wrong because of the bias.

I have to say, from experience, this mother comes across as one of those mothers who will deny that there child ever does wrong doing--no matter how much evidence you confront them with. But that's just my two cents--and I can't even say if that's a fair judgment because of the way the article is written.

How can you sexually harass someone if you are biologically incapable of having sex, in any sense of the word, as you are when you are six years old?

Originally Posted by Manhattan_Project_2000

Wow. This one is like the most stupid thing ever.

You'd think that, but whenever you do, the forces of stupidity seem to trump themselves and devise new ways of stooping even further.

That is not sexual harrassment, and any grown up who had gotten the whole story before flipping out would have understood that. The little boy snapped the girl's underwear or whatever because she had done it first and he thought it must have been okay. He's six, for peanut butter's sake, he didn't know any better.

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This seems incredibly stupid to me. How can a 6 year-old possibly understand that he did something sexually offensive when he's too young to even properly comprehend it? I believe that he should have gotten in trouble for merely hitting the girl back (Aka pulling the waistband), and the girl doing it in the first place. To go as far as to say this is sexual harassment is absolutely ridiculous. These are 6 year-old children, completely incapable of having sex themselves. There's no way that they could even comprehend it, even if told about it.

/o_o\; *smacks hand on forehead* he touched the skin on her back...woohoo...that's an infraction right there...ridiculous. He had no idea what he was doing! At this point in his life almost anything sex-related should be like a foreign language to him!

People these days...
I mean seriously. Its a child. An innocent Child! Why does everything have to be around sex? It's a CHILD!!! Children are learning more about it at a younger age. I personally think its wrong. I'm guessing I'm not the only one as well.

People these days...
I mean seriously. Its a child. An innocent Child! Why does everything have to be around sex? It's a CHILD!!! Children are learning more about it at a younger age. I personally think its wrong. I'm guessing I'm not the only one as well.

Which do you think is wrong? Children learning of these things at such young ages or the fact that a 6-year-old was suspended for "sexual harassment"? Sign me up for both groups...I used to see 7th graders embracing each other and making out in the school's halls...uttering...inappropriate things. O__o;;; awwwkwaaard...there's a funny story that my history teacher told me too...and you can ask ____ for a very bizarre story...assuming he/she will answer.

ugh...wow im nto saying i disagree with all u pplbut depending on what environment the boy has been exposed to and who he obtains knowledge from, a boy as young as him can sexually assault someone at that agesure, maybe he doesn't know what hes doing is wrong, maybe where he came from it was considered ok, and encouraged to start having sex at that agemy mom taught a large group of somalian kids last year who just migrated to america a few years backthere was a girl in that class whose onyl 7 who has a restraining order against a 6 yr old boy in that class who sexually assaulted her in kindergartenwhen he was in my mom's class he would unzip his fly all the time and try to touch girlsfinally afrer 2 months the school became smart & permanently kicked him out for good after they brought him back in as a number to add onto the school so they wouldn't shut it downbiggest idiotic mistake ever lets just say

ugh...wow im nto saying i disagree with all u ppl
but depending on what environment the boy has been exposed to and who he obtains knowledge from, a boy as young as him can sexually assault someone at that age

...which is exactly why I said should be like a foreign language! xP

Originally Posted by Hatake Buruku

This is like charging a dog with sexual harrassment for humping your leg. (Or maybe not, but its a funny thought...)

im sorry but lots of u are just is really stupid atmmaybe its just me who thinks this is normal considered in other culturesu see child prostitution in thailand as a perfect example, boys are raised to think tis ok to assault a girl from their parentsif u go to other countries its considered normal for a child at that age to think & believe its ok to want to have sexI COMPLETELY DISAGREE with all of you ppl saying that these charges are stupid when infact in lots of cases its quite justifiedin my mind its possible that that boy thought it was totally ok to do thati totally don't think the boy should be put into juvenile, i think he should be corrected educationally & raised rite again for his own sake

im sorry but lots of u are just is really stupid atmmaybe its just me who thinks this is normal considered in other culturesu see child prostitution in thailand as a perfect example, boys are raised to think tis ok to assault a girl from their parentsif u go to other countries its considered normal for a child at that age to think & believe its ok to want to have sexI COMPLETELY DISAGREE with all of you ppl saying that these charges are stupid when infact in lots of cases its quite justifiedin my mind its possible that that boy thought it was totally ok to do thati totally don't think the boy should be put into juvenile, i think he should be corrected educationally & raised rite again for his own sake

I don't see how it's justified as sexual harassment. The child obviously DID NOT know that he was doing something sexually offensive, because he's SIX YEARS OLD! He won't get the idea of having sex from doing something that is NOT sexually related. The only thing that he comprehensively did was get pay back from a girl that did the same thing to him. He did NOT do this out of the desire to have sex. In fact, it's biologically impossible for him have this kind of urge. To take this to sexual harassment charges is ridiculous.

EDIT: I'd like to add that the "Child Prostitution" that you talked about earlier only involves little girls selling their bodies to grown men to get money for the family. That's it.

im sorry but lots of u are just is really stupid atmmaybe its just me who thinks this is normal considered in other culturesu see child prostitution in thailand as a perfect example, boys are raised to think tis ok to assault a girl from their parentsif u go to other countries its considered normal for a child at that age to think & believe its ok to want to have sexI COMPLETELY DISAGREE with all of you ppl saying that these charges are stupid when infact in lots of cases its quite justifiedin my mind its possible that that boy thought it was totally ok to do thati totally don't think the boy should be put into juvenile, i think he should be corrected educationally & raised rite again for his own sake

In not a single part of that article did I read of there ever being evidence that his mother brought him up that way, or that she didn't bring him up that way, besides the "cable thing". (her own proclamation of having risen her son well amounts to almost nothing)

As I look over the posts, I believe that the majority of the repliers used what little facts they have to support their statements, so no one should be disagreeing or agreeing with anyone for reasons similar to yours, due to lack of crucial information. We don't even know how the girl felt about it...and like I said...according to what I see, the boy only touched her back. Besides...would a kid know how to fake actual crying? Perhaps...but last time I checked that was unlikely.